That’s a wrap: Lauzon, Ferguson, Park and Corrin Happy to report there are plenty of laughs in this year’s annual Air Farce New Year’s special.Attended the Thursday night taping of the sketch comedy hour at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto. (A second night of taping takes place Friday.) Was a little apprehensive heading in.
Quick–turn on your TV and watch the hour-long 22 Minutes Christmas special (8 p.m., CBC). The Halifax-based sketch com, in its 19th season, is having a banner year in quality and ratings. Tonight the gang goof on Dragon’s Den billionaire Kevin O’Leary (typecast as Scrooge). The hour is packed with guest stars, including Jim Cuddy
Hillbilly Handfishin’, Storage Wars–what next? A whole lotta stupid is comin’ atcha as networks stoop as low as they can go in their endless search for cheap and unchallenging content. Notice went out the other day about a new show from schlock-meisters Animal Planet called American Stuffers (premiering Jan. 5). It’s about a family of Arkansas taxidermists
Are some shows just too smart or challenging for the mass audiences that sustain broadcast TV? Take Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays, as I do in a feature up on the wire for The Canadian Press this week. You can read the full story here.Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays airs its final episode of the season Tuesday
VANCOUVER–Who knew the high arctic was just five miles north of the U.S. border?That’s where CBC held their west coast version of their Winter launch, in the makeshift sound stage where interiors for their upcoming drama Arctic Air are shot. The series, which stars Adam Beach and was inspired by the real life Buffalo Airmen
There are times when I shake my head and say to myself, “I love my job.”Wednesday was one of those times. It all started after I was invited to Ottawa to watch the folks behind Murdoch Mysteries shoot a few scenes in front of the Parliament Buildings. Next thing I know, I’m being ushered into
It’s so rare when things work out in such a common sense way in Canadian television that I’m not even sure this is real. Yet everyone I just interviewed for the hurry up CP story says its true–Murdoch Mysteries has been saved.The Canadian historical drama, readers here will recall, was set to be phased out
Host MacLean and skaters Dubreuil and Berard face judge Bezic Battle of the Blades is one of those shows you really should see live. The skating performances look great on camera, but there is a big event energy to an actual taping as I discovered again Sunday night at the Mastercard Centre. This was my